Ed. note: Once again, Idolator intern Kate Richardson scours the video sites, looking for the best fan-made music videos. In this entry, she looks at two very different takes on The Lion King:
Seeing as how this is the internet, where three days might as well be 300 years, a new video clip where New York retro-disco ensemble Escort’s “All Through the Night” is expertly spliced to classic Muppets footage has already begun to make the rounds, at least on the blogs that don’t take the… More »
…which only makes this Chris Elliott-starring fake Mac ad even funnier.Chris Elliott’s Mac Vs. PC Commercial [YouTube, via… More »
It’s Friday, so here’s a mashup of Cher and Portishead accompanied by a bunch of digitally manipulated pictures of her Cherness. Perfect if your weekend plans involve both ecstasy and heroin. (OK, seriously though, this is great–it brings out the inherent jazziness in the melody, turning the uplifting chorus into blue notes and suggesting the answer to the title question might be “no.”)
During my daily YouTube trawl a few weeks back, I discovered the above clip of Pere Ubu performing “Breath,”, their typically zonked stab at a glossed-out “pop hit,” on David Sanborn’s long-mothballed after-hours show Night Music. It was pretty damn weird seeing Crocus Behemoth splutter and stutter on a stage that looked more suited to G.E. Smith, and talking to a friend with fond memories of the show and a few YouTube links of his own, I found out that for a few years Sanborn delighted in screwing with the preconceptions of the late-night audience in the era of Richard Marx. It also turns out that everybody’s pal, turbodouche Lorne Michaels, feels that, because he never made back his initial investment on the show, the episodes should rot in storage somewhere rather than be released on DVD. And so, in lieu of properly synced footage in stereophonic high-fidelity with bonus features and a commentary track, I present to you, after the jump, the blurry, pixilated best of Night Music (at least of what’s available on YouTube).
The BBC sent its chart blogger to the Eden Project in Cornwall, a “green” theme park where British pop stars give shows; there, he caught a show where beehived singer/TRL favorite Amy Winehouse actually showed up, giving him the chance to see her many personalities, including Sweary Amy,… More »
We’re pretty unabashed fans of Decibel, the extreme-metal monthly with some of the sharpest and funniest writing to be found in any music mag around. (You can read it online, too.) The mag’s first foray into TV advertising, written by Decibel managing editor Andrew Bonazelli and starring its sales rep, Mark Evans, has plenty to enjoy as well–we especially like the file cabinet’s labels (“Troo” and “False”), the hesher bobblehead, and the “surprise” ending. See for yourself:
MTV has a history of banning would-be popular videos, but it was 19 years ago this week that one of the network’s most peculiar censorship decisions took place. Neil Young’s “This Note’s for You” was denied play on the network due to a fear of offending valuable advertisers. More »
Ed. note: Once again, Idolator intern Kate Richardson scours the video sites, looking for the best fan-made music-video tributes. In this entry, she looks at two very different takes on the Mulder and Scully relationship:
When it was rumored that members of Gogol Bordello would be appearing with Madonna to close out Live Earth’s London show, you could hear the rustling from music-critic heads being scratched. How would noted style appropriator Madonna incorporate the raucous Gypsy and punk influences of Gogol Bordello into her act? Was she confused and under the impression that the band were, in fact, an actual bordello? After suffering through the new Kabbalah hymn composed for the occasion and a screeching rendition of “Ray of Light”, frontman Eugene Hutz and violinist Sergey Ryabtsev hit the stage. Opinions on the resulting performance of Madonna’s classic cry of love to some guy named Pedro, “La Isla Bonita,” were mixed, even among today’s Idolator staff:
